
Anna Q. Nilsson
Anna Quirentia Nilsson was a Swedish-born actress who achieved success in American silent movies. Starring in some 200 feature films. The first Swedish actress to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In 1905, she had earned enough for a ticket across the Atlantic. In New York she was discovered on a thriving avenue by the famous portrait painter James Carroll Beckwith and soon she was New York's highest paid model. In 1907 she was named America's most beautiful woman and became a model for the 1910s beauty ideal, The Gibson Girl Look.
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120 Credits
Sunset Boulevard
as Anna Q. Nilsson
1950

Girls' Town
as Mother Lorraine
1942

Her Surrender
as Rhoda Courtlandt
1916

Painted People
as Leslie Carter
1924

An American in Paris
as Kay Jansen (uncredited)
1951

Shenandoah
as Gertrude Illingham
1913

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
as Mrs. Elcott (uncredited)
1954

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
as Mrs. Elcott
1954

Babe Comes Home
as Vernie
1927

Cheating Cheaters
as Grace Palmer
1919

Blockade
as Bess
1928

They Died with Their Boots On
as Mrs. Taipe (uncredited)
1941